The latest news relating to the political world as it impacts the US Latino community.
The three-judge panel in Washington released its interim map proposals for the state house and senate today. The maps can be found here. The senate map is Plan S163. The house map is Plan H298 (Judge Smith also has a dissenting state house proposal, which is H299). The parties have been asked to submit any [...]
The state of Texas and the U.S. Justice Department presented arguments to a federal court on Wednesday regarding the state’s controversial proposed election maps which could potentially lower the chances of Latinos to choose candidates of their choice in several districts. The three-judge panel’s decision will have tremendous impact: Texas stands to win four new [...]
A report by the Pew Research Center released last week found that Latinos have been the worst hit by the current economic recession. Researchers from the Social & Demographic Trends Project analyzed data from the Census Bureau and found that the median wealth of Hispanic households fell drastically from $18,359 in 2005 to $6,325 in [...]
The Hispanic population in the U.S. accounted for more than half of the total population growth in the country outpacing other demographic groups, according to a U.S. Census Bureau brief released last week. The Census brief, Hispanic Population: 2010, shows that the Hispanic population grew by 43 percent, or at a rate of four times [...]
The 2010 Census figures indicate increased diversity from 366 metro areas in the U.S. and showed that Hispanics now outnumber the number of blacks, becoming the largest minority group in 191 metro areas. The data is significant because it could influence the political maps that are drawn during the restricting process and possibly shift the [...]
Reflecting on the 2010 Census results and the dramatic increase in the U.S. Latino community, I ask myself how we once again find ourselves in the same predicament as ten years ago, with no national sense of urgency to fix Latino education when it has significant implications for our future workforce. Even though the last [...]
New Jersey was one of the first states to receive its redistricting data and as such, is ahead of the pack in redrawing its districts. It is also now taking the first crack at how to best represent the Hispanic population in the state. The state is deliberating over two approaches. The first, “packing” would [...]
We are witnesses today to an historic period in the civic engagement of Latinos in the United States. Latinos have become a permanent fixture of the American political experience, and the Census is an integral part of that. Every issue – healthcare, the economy, jobs, funding for schools, hospitals and roads — is affected by [...]
More than 120 million U.S. census forms will begin arriving in mailboxes around the country this week. This decade population count will be used to determine congressional districts and allocate more than $400 billion in federal aid. Census Bureau director Robert Groves kicked off the national mail-in campaign in Phoenix on Monday, urging cities and [...]
According to a new demographic report, minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S. This is part of a historic trend in which whites of European descent are expected to become the minority of the U.S. population over the next 40 years. “Census projections suggest America may become a minority-majority country by [...]
